$47 million got them exactly what they wanted. A system that was so over-zealous that it discouraged people from filling for benefits; and if they did, it would wait a year, and then tell them that they owed about 3x what they could pay, and it was due last Tuesday. A few suicides a few bankruptcies, and word gets around. The UI fund went from $3.1 mil to $155 mil in 5 years. Well worth $47 mil to gain $152 million - a 3x RoI.
Posts by Swarthy
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Fraud detection system with 93% failure rate gets IT companies sued
Smut-scamming copyright chaser 'fesses up, will do hard time
Re: God I love America:
The lameness is that these two were the best the parties could be arsed to would offer us. One owned (speculatively) by the Russians, who's major criteria for a Cabinet post is how much they donated to his campaign, and the other (speculatively) owned by Wall St, who's policies would have been determined by donations and "favors".
And now the US Citizenry is so busy yelling at each other over which Lizard was better (calling the other side "baby killers" and "deplorable") and no one is yelling at the jackals who set us up like this.
It's a bit like the kid who want's to stay up, so they ask Mom - she says no. They then ask Dad, adding "mommy said Yes"; Dad says "If Mommy say yes....". Kid now tells Mom that Dad said "Yes". Mom Yells at Dad for undermining her, Dad yells at Mom for yelling at him, neither noticing that while they've been arguing for 45 minutes, the kid has watched half a horror movie.
Spies do spying, part 97: Shock horror as CIA turn phones, TVs, computers into surveillance bugs
Watt the f... Dim smart meters caught simply making up readings
Google, what the hell? Search giant wrongly said shop closed down, refused to list the truth
BONG! Lasers crack Big Ben frequency riddle BONG! No idea what to do with this info BONG!
Nokia 3310 'Supremo Putin' edition goes on sale in Russia
SHA-1 crack just got real: System Center uses it to talk to Linux
Netflix investor sues vid giant for 'covering up' subscriber stats stumble
Passport and binary tree code, please: CompSci quizzes at US border just business as usual
US military drone goes AWOL, ends up crashing into tree 623 miles away
Two-thirds of TV Licensing prosecutions at one London court targeted women
Smart meter firm EDMI asked UK for £7m to change a single component
Google's troll-destroying AI can't cope with typos
IBM UK: Oh, remote workers. We want to be colocated with you again
Stand up meetings
Stand-ups do tend to go quicker; mainly because people are lazy, and want to go back to sitting down. So the usual quibbling over verbiage and violent agreements (two+ people arguing for the same point using different words) happens less often. Also that "last question" that sparks a half-hour discussion/debate doesn't get asked.
Bee boffins prove sesame-seed brain is all you need to play football (well, that explains a lot)
Re: Generalization or missing the point
Well, given that bees have rather good color vision (except for the color red) and this has been extensively documented, I think it is safe to say that the boffins controlled for color vision in this experiment.
Also given that bees can direct other bees to a specific flower at a surprising distance, I would say that "closeness" is not a parameter that bees disregard.
LG, Huawei unwrap 'Samsung Galaxy-killers'
Brit cops can keep millions of mugshots of innocent folks on file
Engineer who blew lid on Uber's toxic sexist culture now menaced by creepy 'smear campaign'
New UK laws address driverless cars insurance and liability
I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court
EU privacy gurus peer at Windows 10, still don't like what they see
BS Detection 101 becomes actual University subject
Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed
Re: Call me old fashioned if you will but...
A wee bit of correction:
Right to work does not mean that you can be fired for any reason, it means you can be fired for no reason. If a reason is given, it must be a good one, else you can sue for wrongful termination.
It also means that you can quit for no reason. Also that you cannot be forced to join a union, nor fired for joining one.
Probe President Trump and his crappy Samsung Twitter-o-phone, demand angry congressfolk
US visitors must hand over Twitter, Facebook handles by law – newbie Rep starts ball rolling
OK, it's time to talk mass spying again: America's Section 702 powers are up for renewal
Talk of tech innovation is bullsh*t. Shut up and get the work done – says Linus Torvalds
Rasputin whips out large intimidating tool, penetrates uni, city, govt databases – new claim
Magic Leap sued for sex discrimination … by woman it hired to stamp out sex discrimination
Having just popped over there to see their site, I must admit, I found that video kinda' creepy.
Also, a complete lack of explanation of what they are developing. VR? AR? Next Gen Shrooms?
What we found was when you give the brain and the body what they want, suddenly the shackles are off, the rectangular boxes are tossed, and something magical happens…experiences like none you’ve ever seen.Reading the About Us pages (above), and watching the videos one could be excused for thinking that they were developing some sort of pharmaceuticaly-enhanced IT.